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Prophetic witness across waters: Faith, oil and the struggle for resource justice from the Niger delta to The Americas: A Pan-African perspective

The rich natural oil endowments of the country Nigeria remain juxtaposed with numerous socio-economic problems, thus calling into question the issues of good governance, social justice, and accountability in Nigeria. The present paper seeks to analyze the interaction of oil, faith, and freedom in light of the Pan-African paradigm. In particular, it seeks to investigate the role of religious organizations as socio-political actors in the resource governance processes within the Niger Delta region in order to understand their efforts at promoting good governance, transparency, justice, accountab…